As for my whole trip, Dawson was the place I started at! It was a wonderful place and had many options and things to do. The land was beautiful, and all the colored houses made it amazing to look at.
My first day in Dawson City started off with me going to two museums on Monday. They where both very beautiful museums and full of information. The first museum was Jack London Museum, I began exploring at 1:00 pm and left at around 2:00 pm. To take a self tour it was $5 per person, it was worth $5! The Jack London Museum is a replica of a famous writers house, Jack London. The museum contains photos, documents,and newspaper articles.
At the end of my exploration of the Jack London Museum I headed to my next destination which was the Dawson City Museum. This museum was quit different than the other one as it was much larger and had a different focus! It was more focused on the history of Dawson and about the famous mine in Dawson city! The museum was fun to explore and had some amazing artifacts to look at, and examine. I started my tour around 3:00 pm and ended at 6:00 pm, I paid $9 for one ticket for myself. At the end of my tour I decided to go and check in to my hotel room I booked for two nights in Bonanza Gold Motel. The motel was $279 for two nights and was a pretty nice hotel room overall!
As for the next morning I chose to go to the Gold Fields and Mine Tour! It was an amazing experience, and was really fun to do. It was pretty pricey but very worth it. We found lots of gold, zine, lead, and silver while on the trip. They let us go in the water and rocky area and taught us how to find, and how to tell what kind of mineral it is. The tour started at around 8:15 am and ended at 1:00 pm. I headed back to my hotel room later on that night, after getting gas.
Dawson has a population of 15,099, and population density of 0.07 people per square km. Dawson has lots of different land features like hills, rivers, and large grass fields. Dawson is part of the cordillera family, and they mostly produce wheat, oats, and barley. Most of Canada's energy comes from Yukon where Dawson is located, and they're very famous for there gold and mining! They have one of the largest mines in Canada! You can get to Dawson in various ways, some of the ways include, car, train, boat, plane, ext.
In the summer the overall temperature is nice and warm and pretty freezing in the winters. The average in the summer is 15.7 'C and as for the winter the average is -26'C. Dawson overall gets lots of rain all through the year. Half the town is below sea level and has flooded over 22 times. Since they get floods a lot it acts as a big push factor for new comers, some pulls factors about Dawson are actually there lakes, rivers, and how little population it has.
Jack London Museum | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm - Monday | $5 |
Dawson City Museum | 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm - Monday | $9 |
Gold Fields & Mine tour | 8:15 am - 1:00 pm -Tuesday | $60.00 |
Hotel room price - $279 for two nights
Gas price (full tank) - $109.9
Address of Jack London Museum - 600 Firth St, Dawson City, YT Y0B 1G0
Address of Dawson City Museum - 595 Fifth Ave, Dawson City, YT
Address of Gold-bottom Mine Tours - 966 Front St, Dawson City, YT
Address of Hotel (Bonanza Gold Motel) - Dawson City, YT Bonanza Gold Motel & RV Park, address